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Boy, this question brings back memories! I remember seeing Jim Post there in the on-campus Amazing Grace back in '74. It was a very intimate and awesome performance. After that they moved to the Main Street area of Evanston. I remember seeing James Taylor's brother perform there. I dug a…round and found this comprehensive pdf http://www.library.northwestern.edu/archives/findingaids/Amazingrace.pdf you may want to download..
I spent all my Babysitting money on the Amazing Grace Coffee House. I saw amazing performers there. Here's a list I recall: Odetta (I paid about 75 cents to see her), Steve Goodman, John Prine, Livingston Taylor, Sam Leopold, Kenny Bloom, Jim Post, Emmylou Harris, Redwood Landing, and more, but that's all I recall at the moment. It was an amazing place for teens since you could hear incredible performers/musicians and age didn't matter since they didn't serve alcohol. I wish that my 16 year old had a place like this to go. It was one of my fondest memories of childhood. It was a small ranchlike house right on the Northwestern campus and off the lakefront in Evanston. I just recall I was there pretty much every weekend and got all my friends hooked on it. I'm still playing guitar and I owe my interest to the Amazing Grace Coffee House. I hope that someone can put a clip on you tube. It would be great! (MORE)

4-4-6/4-4-6 compound meter.
In hymnological terms, it's in Common Meter, commonly marked 8 6. 8 6 and abbreviated CM in a hymnal. Common Meter has a strong history in church and folk music, and a great many plainsong hymns are in this meter. We are today more familiar with such CM hymns as ' O God …our help in ages past ' and ' In Christ there is no east or west .' The iconic 60's pop-rock tune ' House of the Rising Sun ' is also in Common Meter. You can sing ' Amazing Grace' to it..
Better put, Amazing Grace is in 3/4. [3/4 is the time signature, not the meter.] (MORE)

The words were written by ex-slave trader John Newton, who was bornin London on 24 July 1725. His father was commander of a merchantship, and young John followed in his footsteps. After his fatherdied, Newton joined the crew on the H.M.S. Hartwich, but desertedafter he found the living conditions de…plorable. He was recaptured,flogged and demoted from midshipman to common seaman. After this, Newton spent some time on a slave-trader's ship,learning the trade, and eventually commanding his own trade inslavery. His conversion occurred during a violent storm at sea on10 May 1748. From then on, he was a changed man, ultimately leavinghis sea-going days behind him, and studying to become a minister.He was ordained by the Bishop of Lincoln and given the curacy ofOlney, Buckinghamshire. "Amazing Grace" was written whilst he wasat Olney, most probably between 1760 and 1770. He could nowunderstand that God's love is for every man and Jesus had paid theprice through his death on the cross for every sin he had evercommitted. Incidentally, Newton did not write the music, only thewords. The origin of the music is unknown, and there have beenseveral speculations about the music. One is that it might havebeen based on a melody sung by the slaves themselves. Newton and William Wilberforce eventual prevailed in seeing thatslavery was abolished in the British empire in 1833, 32 yearsbefore it was finally abolished in the United States in 1865 by the13 Amendment. (MORE)

The lower case d is for the low d. The capital D is for the high D. The lyrics to Amazing Grace are: d g b g b a g e d d g b g b a D bD b D b g d e g g e d d g b g b a g and for the other verses its exactly the same!Good luck and havefun!!!! added to by international If you want actual shee…t music here is the link: recordersheetmusic.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=186130951 (MORE)

The words to "Amazing Grace" were written in the 18th century by John Newton. He was born in London and after a life which included being press-ganged into the navy, flogged and becoming a skipper of a boat plying the slave trade, was converted to religion and became a minister. He wrote many hymns …and this one was propelled into the pop charts when a pipe band recorded the tune. (MORE)

Amazing Grace Amazing Grace How sweet the sound that saved a wretch lie me I once was lost but now I'm found was blind but now i see That's the beginning of the song the rest is on amazing grace lyrics.com

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn written by English poet and clergyman John Newton (1725-1807) published in 1779. With a message that forgiveness and redemption is possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God, "Amazing Gr…ace" is one of the most recognizable songs in the English-speaking world. (MORE)

I have to say yes and no because this song is from John Newton that was a bad person until he repented when there was no one there to help him and he realized he was lost. John could of wrote it to show what happened to him and how God changed his life. .
When John Newton give his life to Christ on… May 10, 1748 he probably wrote Amazing Grace to show people that committing to Christ is a wonderful thing to do. You have a more wonderful life and more joyful. .
I am Baptist so I know what's it like to be save and I think that John Newton is meaning Amazing Grace as a positive way to show how his life was and how God changed him around and now that he's glad. (MORE)

The definition of Grace is 'an unmerited gift.' Amazing means so great that it is beyond imagination. Combined, the term amazing grace is referring to salvation and what an incredibly wonderful gift it is because we really do not deserve salvation.

just sing it to yourself and search `amazing grace music notes for recorder` in google and it will come up with the song. amazing grace is a song for starters but good on recorders. the lyrics (if you want to sing it to yourself after or before the recorder practise (reccomended) is: amazing grace…, how sweet the sound that saved a wreck like,me i once was young but now i see, amazing grace in me (MORE)

This rather depends on the key you prefer, but here it is in C major: GC E C E D C A G G C ECE D G Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! E G EDCE D C A G G C EC E D C I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see!

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. 'Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear. And Grace, my fears relieved. How precious did that Grace appear The hour I first believed. Through many dangers, t…oils and snares I have already come; 'Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far and Grace will lead me home. The Lord has promised good to me. His word my hope secures. He will my shield and portion be, As long as life endures. Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail, And mortal life shall cease, I shall possess within the veil, A life of joy and peace. When we've been here ten thousand years Bright shining as the sun. We've no less days to sing God's praise Than when we've first begun. (MORE)

Amazing Grace was written by an Englishman named John Newton in the late 1700's. He was captain of several slave ships for over 20 years. He repented his sins became a preacher and chose to live the rest of his life in solitude. During this period he wrote the hymn Amazing Grace about himself, his e…xperience, and the revelation that led him to change his life. He also inspired and mentored his young friend William Wilberforce to begin a virtually singlehanded crusade in parliament that would span two decades and result in the abolition of slavery throughout the British empire. (MORE)

There was no actual group, it was a solo project by David Cohen . . . . . . . an astounding session guitarist frrom L.A. in the sixties who most definitely was the artist who recorded a single of Amazing Grace . . . . David was my guitar mentor, and I worked at the Ash Grove School of Traditional… Folk Music when I was a teenager in the sixties, where David was one of the noteworthy teachers, which included Taj Mahal. I was allowed to learn all the guitar I could stand, attend all the shows and eat for free all week long (The Ash Grove was a major folk/roots music venue), plus five bucks a day on Sundays when I worked for the school . . . . and I have been a pro guitarist ever since. David is not well known, but we have all heard his work. He played the acoustic 12-String guitar on Bobby Darin's huge hit "If I Were A Carpenter", he played the backwards-taped electric guitar solo on the Kenny Rogers psychedelic band tune (before Rogers went country) called "I Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In" . . . the band was Kenny Rogers & the First Edition. David also played on some Sonny and Cher hits and some Nillson records, and much more. His mentor, or at the very least a major influence on David was another lesser known but highly interesting L.A. session guitarist named Don Peake. ~ ~ herringbone jones (MORE)

He was a slave himself yes but that is not the true topic of the song. What the song really means is that he was bound in sin but Jesus came to the earth and died on the cross for his sins. All the bad things he had ever done where swept away and the burden was lifted by Jesus' blood that was shed o…n the cross. (MORE)

When it was originally written, it is unknown what music, if any, accompanied the verses written by John Newton. The hymnbooks did not contain music and were simply small books of religious poetry. The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Hunt…ingdon's Hymns (London, 1808), where it is set to the tune "Hephzibah" by English composer John Jenkins Husband. Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes; more than twenty musical settings of "Amazing Grace" circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named "New Britain", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies ("Gallaher" and "St. Mary") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw (Cincinnati, 1829). As neither tune is attributed and both show elements of oral transmission, scholars can only speculate that they are possibly of British origin. "Amazing Grace", with the words written by Newton and joined with "New Britain", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1847. (MORE)

With some exceptions almost all songs have some story line or plot content. The narrator of Amazing Grace cites the various, manifold benefits of Divine Favor, and one of them was cure of his ( possibly temporary) Blindness. ( Twas Blind, but now I See) if you follow the plot line it appears to be a… sort of musical biography or autobiography of Saint Paul, and is entirely consonant with Paulist theology. The song was written by a man named Newton ( not the scientist). (MORE)

Grace is getting something you do not deserve. Mankind has turnedaway from God and because of this God will judge all of mankind.However God has provided away for man to be saved from God's comingjudgment. This way of salvation is through God's son Jesus Christ -this is God's amazing grace God has g…iven mankind a way of escapeeven though mankind deserves God's judgment (MORE)